Oh for cryin in the beer cheese soup.

well this is what we had for lunch...

It was awesome delicious cheesy jalapeno soup I got from the craft fair. It was super good and I like to put some popcorn on top like with beer cheese soup. I love beer cheese soup and I love the movie new in town lol. I live in Minnesota not the middle of no where like that movie though. I love when the Foreman says "oh for crying in the beer cheese soup" lol Among many other things and I can do the accent great lol. I find it hilarious because I didn't grow up here. I see the humor. So we were eating our lunch when..Oh for crying in the beer cheese soup! The school nurse called monkey butt is sick again!!!! Fever had to go get her. So this was my house in the afternoon.

She was 102.4 when we got home and wound up like this. The hubby was complaining he was sick to soo he was like this...

So much for me being sick. I told them it is against the law to get sick before I am 100% but they aren't buying it . The worst part the only person who is 100% is this one...

Ahhhh she is driving us all crazy and getting into as much trouble as she can!!! Send help please!!! lol but I did manage to get the cupcake hat patter wrote up for all sizes doll, baby,child and teen/adult. So it is available for purchase in the side bar. but I better go before the fire monster causes anymore damage lol.

fall fun to share

So when I think of fall I think of a few things since I grew up in Washington state one of them is definitely apples. I am a apple snob. I won't eat red Delicious and I only like them super crunchy and just so. When my favorite brilliant zumba teacher Autumn surprised me and Missy with some apple bars at class we were hooked right away. Missy took a bite of one on the way home almost missed out turn and crashed us it was soo good lol. They are amazing.

Me and Missy have been begging relentlessly ever since for the recipe and we whipped up a batch today. :) I got the ever brilliant Autumns permission to share this yummy fall treat with you lucky people

Autums apple bars

filling:

6 large granny smith apples (or 12 small)

1/3 c packed light brown sugar

2T lemon juice

1T honey

1/2 t cinnamon

Crust:

2 1/4 c flour

1/2t baking powder

1/2 t salt

1c or 2 sticks butter

1/2 c packed light brown sugar

1 large egg

Streusel topping:

1 c flour

1/4 c sugar

1/4 light brown sugar

1 t cinnamon

1/4 t salt

1/2 or 1 stick butter cold

1c chopped pecans

the filling:

in a large skillet on medium heat place all of the filling ingredients except cinnamon. Stir them and cover for 3 minutes. add cinnamon let apples bubble away stirring occasionally after 15-20 minutes when liquid has evaporated set skillet aside to cool

Crust:

preheat oven to 375f. Line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment. sift together flout baking powder and salt

In a large bowl cream together butter and brown sugar when creamy add eggs and then mix in the rest of ingredients. Press into pan bake 15-20 minutes (til golden)

Struesel:

place flour cinnamon sugar and salt in bowl add in butter mixing as much as can with mixer but I had to go in with my hands to really get it to crumble up in the end :)

spread the filling on crust cover with struesel and bake at 350 f for 20-25 minutes. Let cool completely will slice better if chilled :)

yum yum yum

another thing that makes me love fall and winter is hats. I just finished a new one that will maybe grace the pages of my etsy. It is a slouchy hat.

The yarn is bamboo ewe

and this is a rare picture that shows you my large nose profile from my dearly departed daddy lol. I never take profile but I really wanted to show the hat. :)

Well people there you have it lol. I am off to fit in one more episode of Dog The Bounty Hunter before my hubby gets home from work. Enjoy the new yummys I know I am going to right now ;)

So I was talking about starting some infant size cupcake hats to throw up on my etsy account and my sister said I should knit up some for American girl dolls to match the child size. This is what I came up with...

It is on monkey butts kit doll
This is the top view..

Here is fire monster and kit modeling

Doesn't she look happy as a clam :) too cute. They are up on my etsy one set has already sold and they haven't even been up 24 hours ! :)

Here are some other hand made goodies I thought I would share with you that I have picked up lately. These are re-useable baggies. They are sorta a wind breakery material on the inside and have a Velcro closure. Monkey butt loves hers but my hubby said his bread got hard (but in all fairness he does make his sandwich the night before and it may even have been for his second job which wouldn't have got ate until the next evening) But they are great for other snackies or even a cute little bag to keep some stuff in in your purse or diaper bag or whatever :) They were a etsy purchase

This I picked up at the craft fair for fire monster bday. I have always called her the cupcake baby and bought her things with cupcakes on them since before she was born.

This was another thing I picked up at the fair. It is a headband but it is adjustable and has little Velcro tabs on the back side to keep it from sliding out :)

I thought it would be great for the girls (and maybe me upon occasion) So many cute headbands don't adjust small enough for tiny heads like my little fire monsters and even then they seem to slide off. So this works pretty good.

Here is the monkey butt sporting it while busy coloring this afternoon. Well I am going to get some knitting done quick and put the heat pack back on my belly which is in a state of turmoil trying to get all of the stuff back to normal inside itself :( My hubby's last day at mosquito control is tomorrow and that is great for you guys as I am sure I will have lots of hilarious stories to tell about his shenanigans but bad for the pocket book. But I will sure love to wake up warm in bed with him wed. morning in our already getting Arctic tundra :) Night every body

cup-cake-a-nator

So since I am still not up to par my hubby and me curled up to watch a movie last night and I whipped out this baby ...

Its a cupcake hat in 3t size for my little fire monster. I did purple with multi colored sprinkles
I threw a blue molly flower on top.

She is just too cute in this super soft cozy hat. :) It was so easy I am throwing together a few different ones so that I can throw them on etsy for some lucky little ones this winter.

Here is a blue one with a cherry on top

I left sprinkles off this one since I thought it shows the cute frosting swirls better. But if who ever winds up buying it wants sprinkles that is cool too. I knit this one up when I couldn't sleep last night and finished it in the Dr's this morning. I decided to go check in and see if I should still be feeling this bad. I guess the cyst was pushing 3 cm!!! So she said it will take a bit for me to feel 100%. So me and the fire monster are taking it easy and making cupcakes to spread the love today :) Let me know which design you guys think are cuter :)

brrrr...

So yesterday I woke up to this...

about 8'' of snow and we had Fire monsters bday party and me and the ladies always throw dinner in the crock pot then head out to a huge craft fair here in town. Well we went out had a good time and when we got home I saw the plow company was working on our drive way around out ton of guests car. Since my hubby used to plow I thought I would be polite and ask if they would like us to move our vehicles for them. I stepped out of the car waved to make sure the guy in the bob cat saw me...
That bob cat to be exact. And then he waved back opened his window and I asked him he said that would be great they would be done in 5 minutes I looked up as a guy got out of one of the plow trucks.. He proceeded to walk straight up into my space bubble so we were face to face and scream in my face "DON'T YOU EVER F*&^ING WALK UP TO A BOB CAT!!! HE WILL F@$%ING KILL YOU!!! " I was shocked I said" I am sorry I made sure he saw me before I walked up."

Angry man from plow:" I DON'T F#$%ING*(& CARE. "
still in shock I said"You don't need to fing talk to me that way"
angry plow man "YEAH I F@#$ING DO. "

I looked at my sisters who were getting out of the car in a snit at this point Lawna in true coward fashion abandoned ship and went for the house my sisters were gearing up for a fight but I said "no forget it leave your stuff where ever" Bernie was chasing him (slowly as to not pull her stitches out lol) "Excuse me sir ...excuse me". But my sisters got her under each elbow and lugged her into the house. As we heard angry plow man yell at his employee :"DON'T YOU EVER F@#$%ING STOP AGAIN...

So by this point the girls are in the house my hubby was intercepted on his way out of the house pulling his boots on to kick some mean guy butt and I drug him back in and I finished cooking dinner for the 16 family members through frustrated tears after all I was just being polite for god sake.


So the moral of the story is High profile sucks never ever ever pay them for their services. They are rude disrespectful and scream at and threaten mothers at their 3 year olds birthday party. I will be making calls on Monday to my association and maintenance company.

Other then that I am exhausted and going to take curl and and watch some deadliest catch because I have had enough excitement for one weekend thank you very much.

It is Monday and I have just heard from the plow company apologising. We will see what they do to handle this. Any one I know who would talk to a customer that way would be fired instantly

It is tuesday and I heard from Dean at High Profile again. He was very apologetic and polite. Assured me he would be talking with the crew at our site and making sure that nothing like this would happen ever again. He made sure I had his cell number in case we had any emergencies over the winter or anything else should arise. He was very professional and polite. It made me feel allot better to know that this is not what this company stands for and I made sure to let him know that the bob cat driver should get a pat on the back because he was sure to look out for me and very polite and respectful when I did have a question. :)

My little mae mae

What you are seeing in this photo is a changed man ( and me dying in the back ground but don't mind that ) This is my hubbys proudest moment. This was 11:44 on 11/11/07. True to Evea maes form she was born just before the vikings game to make her daddy happy.

She was purple for a long time and just a puny little thing. This is her going home outfit that monkey butt picked for her. She was going through her dirty dancing phase.

Shelby wound up getting sick and had ear infections but she was proud as could be. :)


now she is a full blown monster.


who uses poor fat andy for a step stool :) She colors on walls, eats things that can't be digested by the human body, climbs everything, occasionally curses like a sailor, and is a constant challenge but she is also cute, sweet, funny, and loving. She is a child with a mind of her own and it is a hard mind to change but one thing is for sure I love that little fire monster :)

ovaries suck...

So today instead of a heart felt entry about my fire monster turning 3 and what a joyous day it was 3 years ago today it all got over shadowed by my stinkin ovaries. To be more exactly the cyst that decided to burst on my stinking ovaries. I Know what you are thinking seriously this woman has more medical crud flying around this blog then webmd. What the heck is going on with my family right now seriously.

So I got up and went pee quick so firemonster could open some gifts and I could go take care of the sis in law. Well I was mid stream when Sharp pain started it was horrible. I got up it kept going a sharp awful pain on the lower right side of my belly. I couldn't get into my Doctor until 10:30 I wasn't going to last that long so to the e.r. I went. I staired at this picture for a long time..

Worst ever. It says "are you a survivor of sexual violence" but the supposed rap victim looks like she is dreaming of cup cakes , fuzzy kittens, and prom dates. What is that all about?? That was when my mean cranky old nurse came in to give me a i.v.

yowsers


You can't see the puffiness in this picture. She tried the wrist I was wrathing in pain already then she was digging in my arm with a needle the size of a pinky as I yelled. I was dying. So she lost that needle. So then went for the top of the hand (the most pain full spot to get a i.v.) and I was even worse she got it but then had to cram and un cram the needles to get the blood that apparently plays hide and seek in my arm. All of this is going on with out my hubby because they didn't let him come back yet. So she finally says (in a not nice tone I might add)" Well I am going to have to quit since you are in so much pain and they are just going to have to stick you again anyway but if I keep going we are just going to loose this vein too." As though my first vein not working was my fault and that the pain was my fault too. I looked at her tears streaming down my face and said" I am sorry but this is not my fault. "

Then she goes out to the nursing station and I hear them all talking about me "what was going on in there with all the screaming?" "Oh I know " said my nurse like I could hear her eyes rolling. I just wanted to cram that needle in her repeatedly and see how lovely she felt. I got pain meds mellowed out had my cat scan and I have a burst ovarian cyst. I have never felt pain like that since I was in full blow labor. Yikes. So I cam back doped up to high heaven. The hubby cooked lunch for the sister in law and did some chores for her while I slept on the couch. I spent some of the afternoon napping on the bathroom floor. My sisters have the girls and I am going to take my pain meds My bff Missy from down the block brought me some subway and benadryl (since I am itchy from meds) I am going to watch tv and sleep